Vet Team Friday

Its early Friday morning, our last day here. We had a really busy and long day yesterday, seeing nothing but dogs and cats. We went to another church in a different part of town, where our old friends Miguel and Rosa now pastor. They were with Fuente de Amor and were the ones that really got the vet team started, but they have moved on. The area they are in has a high prevelence of rabies in dogs (and people), so they asked us to do a rabies clinic at the church. We worked at the church in the morning, with people bringing dogs and cats in to us. We vaccinated them with a 5 way distemper parvo and rabies, dewomed them, and treated them for external parasites. Hebert secured stamped rabies certificates from the health department so that it would all be official.

In the afternoon we struck out on foot in the neigborhood to get the dogs that could not be brought in. There was usually a good reason they could not bring them. Most were really mean. It was extremely hot, and we waned a bit through the afternoon. It was much harder than working large animals, but we did about 85 total, with 77 getting rabies. It was a very busy small animal day. We plan to do more of these in the future.

Last night I had a long and wonderful meeting with Pastor Antonio about possibilities for future partnerships. We prayed together for a long time for the strength and support to continue to help break the cycle of poverty in Paraguachon. It was a good meeting. Today we have some sight seeing planned, but we will end up back at the dump this afternoon for some sight seeing there.